This is an analysis of the poem Child On Top Of A Greenhouse that begins with:
The wind billowing out the seat of my britches,
My feet crackling splinters of glass and dried putty,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011001010110 111010011110 01101001011010 1101110011 011111010 010110110110 1101101101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 351
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 7
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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